Bumps race
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A bumps race is a form of rowing race in which a number of boats chase each other in single file, each crew attempting to catch and 'bump' the boat in front without being caught by the boat behind.
The starting gun. There are three gun signals: Five (or four in Cambridge) minute gun; 1 minute gun; and the starting gun.
Poling off: LMBC in the 2009 May Bumps
Corpus III bumps Girton III at the 2005 May Bumps in Cambridge
First and Third Trinity Boat Club celebrate the double headship of the Lent Bumps 2007 by burning a boat, the Fair Maid of Kent.
Torpids
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Torpids is one of two series of bumping races, a type of rowing race, held yearly at Oxford University; the other is Eights Week. More than 130 men's and women's crews race for their colleges in twelv
Bumps race
…after bumps racing began in Oxford, Lent Bumps racing commenced at Cambridge University in 1827. At Oxford, an additional bumping regatta, known as Torpids, was begun in 1838. This regatta was originally for men who had not rowed in Eights, nor in a university crew. Bumps races are typically raced in a…
The double headship winning Oriel Men's and Women's Eights crews in 2006.
Men's Division I, places 2 to 5, 2005
New College with a broken rudder and bow oar on Saturday, 2008
Balliol bump St Catherine's, 2010